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Chbr
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 Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject: Problems with iwconfig |
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Hello.
I trying to config my wireless PCI SMC2803W card.
Tried iwconfig, but it only says:
lo no wireless exyensions.
gre0 no wireless extensions.
Under the istallation gentoo found my first TP network card as eth0 and wireless card as eth1.
It worked fine with net-setup eth1! But not when i am booting from harddisk
I also tried using wpa-supplicant, but when i tried emerging it it said no ebuilds.
# emerge net-WIRELESS /wpa-supplicant
I have also activated IWCONFIG in /etc/conf.d/net
# modules = ( "iwconfig" )
Can anyone help? |
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vladgrigorescu
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Anything interesting in dmesg? |
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rabinath
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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try to execute
ifconfig eth1 up
I needed this with a USB WLAN stick once. Before I did not mark the interface as UP no wireless extensions were found. |
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Chbr
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| rabinath wrote: | try to execute
ifconfig eth1 up
I needed this with a USB WLAN stick once. Before I did not mark the interface as UP no wireless extensions were found. |
Hmm..
ifconfig eth0 or ifconfig eth1 only replies eth0 or eth1 does not exist. |
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Chbr
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| vladgrigorescu wrote: | | Anything interesting in dmesg? |
Where can I find dmesg? |
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damosoft
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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just type iwconfig if it find any wireless connections it will list then with their current parameters.
then using that found interface name you can try a ifconfig wlan0 up or whatever it appears as 
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rabinath
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:34 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like there's no driver loaded for the card. try "modprobe prism54". You need the prism54 firmware, too (emerge prism54-firmware).
"dmesg" is a command. It shows the messages from the kernel. |
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